Cool IT Friday. Even today, we have fresh news from the IT world for you.
LinuxDays has the date
Popular LinuxDays will take place again at FIT CTU in Prague and you can expect so many lectures and workshops on the october 6 and 7. You can short a waiting by playing last year’s lecture notes. More information
Firefox will unify cookies
Firefox from version 60 (now in the Nightly Channel) will unify cookies and other saved data. This is the cache and data stored for offline web applications. This will be more clearer to remove all sensitive data that the user saved on the page. However, the disadvantage is interface simplification that will not allow editing of individual cookies. More information
Debian is available for Windows 10
Windows Subsystem for Linux in Windows 10 supports two more Linux distributions, newly. You can install Debian and Kali Linux directly from the Windows Store in Windows 10. Now you can install Debian, Kali Linux, Ubuntu and openSUSE. More information
Security news
Leak in Exim
Vulnerability in the Exim mail server, which allow to run bad code, has been already detected in February. It has covered all versions from the beginning of development. Finally the patch was released and we recommend to update on the version 4.90.1. More information
Vulnerable rTorrent
It’s not so long time, when a vulnerability has been detected in the torrent clients μTorrent and Transmission. Similar vulnerability has been found in rTorrent and allows to use your client to mine cryptocurrencies by attacker. More information
News from Coolhousing
Professional Mining Housing
The high performance, space, electricity and cooling in particular. These are basic, but not all variables that have to be taken into mind, when you want to mine any cryptocurrency. If you already invested a lot of money in the mining rig, then the mining machine care, services and an environment, where the machine is located, should be on the professional level. Only this way, all operating and maintenance costs can be optimized to bring the desired, invested fruit. More information
Author: Jirka Dvořák
